Definition

properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e. over, upon, etc.; of rest (with the dative case) at, on, etc.; of direction (with the accusative case) towards, upon, etc.

Etymology

a primary preposition;

Where the KJV renders it

• about (the times)
• above
• after
• against
• among
• as long as (touching)
• at
• beside
• X have charge of
• (be-
• (where-))fore
• in (a place
• as much as
• the time of
• -to)
• (because) of
• (up-)on (behalf of)
• over
• (by
• for) the space of
• through(-out)
• (un-)to(-ward)
• with

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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